Konfabulator now on Windows..

[dawks]

Konfabulator has been ported to and released for Windows! Konfabulator lets you create and install 'Widgets' which sit on your desktop and do neat things, like give you stock updates, the weather, bandwidth usage, news headlines, streaming cameras, and more. This app has been available for Mac OS/X systems for a long time, but has just been released for Windows.

Screenshot and such

Konfabulator

 

[ViRGE]

Get this, it's that damn good.

 

[dawks]

Originally posted by: ViRGE
Get this, it's that damn good.

If ViRGE says so, it must be true!!!

 

[MrChad]

Any advantages over Samurize?

 

[notfred]

What language do you write widgets in?

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: notfred
What language do you write widgets in?

Looks like a mix of XML and JavaScript.

Text (PDF)

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: MrChad
Any advantages over Samurize?

The biggest difference is simply better dev support. This was previously a Mac product, so there's already a good number of widgets, and they tend to be very well designed because of the Mac thing. It also has a special *nix backend that was included for widget compatibility with the Mac which can be used for interesting purposes.

 

[tfinch2]

Downloaded it and like it. Thanks!

 

[AFB]

Very nice

 

[MrChad]

Hrm, it seems to lock up as soon as I try and load the Weather widget. Maybe I'll play with it more tomorrow.

 

[blurredvision]

Nice. I first heard of this a couple months ago, but was disappointed when I found it was only for the Mac. Thanks!

 

[CarLBanks]

This is a resource hog compared to DesktopX.